Jameela Jamil and Beanie Feldstein will certainly be among the cast gracing our screens in the tv adaptation of Feminists Don’t Wear Pink (as well as various other lies), a collection of 52 empowering essays by women assembled by Scarlett Curtis.
Labelled Girls Can’t Shoot (And Other Lies), the series will certainly star a killer line-up along with Beanie Feldstein (How To Build A Girl, Booksmart) and actor-activist Jameela Jamil (The Good Place). On board are American actress Kat Dennings (that starred in 2 Broke Girls), comic Lolly Adefope (Shrill) as well as singer-actor Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (a.k.a. MJ Rodriguez).
Irish actor Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird, Little Women) is taking an off-screen component in the manufacturing— she’s joining as an executive manufacturer in the pilot episode.
It will certainly be produced by Mark Gordon Pictures, while shooting is expected to start quickly. Feldstein’s girlfriend, Bonnie-Chance Roberts, is likewise aboard as an exec producer.
Based on Curtis’ successful essay collection— which features work from the likes of Emma Watson, Keira Knightley, Dolly Alderton and also Karen Gillan, consisting of Feldstein and Jamil— each episode of the series will include a new lead and storyline based around among the essays in the book.
We’re envisioning it will be a layout similar to Amazon Prime’s Modern Love— the adjustment of the essayistic New York Times column, which recorded our hearts when it initially concerned tv in September 2019 (returning for a second season previously this year).
That is Scarlett Curtis?
Scarlett Curtis is a 26-year-old author, activist as well as previous writer for The Sunday Times Style supplement. She’s the little girl of power duo Richard Curtis (the director/screenwriter/producer behind Notting Hill, About Time and also Four Weddings & & A Funeral) as well as broadcaster Emma Freud.
She curated Feminists Don’t Wear Pink (& & Other Lies) in 2018. This was complied with by It’s Not Alright to Feel Blue & & Other Lies, a collection of essays by 74 people writing around the subject of mental wellness, in 2019.
In a statement to mark the collection’ statement, Curtis stated: «It has been my lifelong desire to show that ladies’s stories can be both entertaining and also empowering and I could not have actually found a more amazing group of females to bring their phenomenal visions to life.»
What motifs will the show cover?
This sounds like the best program to binge-watch with our best friends, as well as we’re sure it will certainly produce some lengthy discussions on our WhatsApp strings also.
It’s likely most of the essential styles will be influenced by Curtis’ initial essay collection, bringing crucial feminist conversations to life on screen. We’ll be rereading the essays in preparation, consisting of Keira Knightley’s review on the pressures on women to look best after providing birth.
When will Girls Can’t Shoot (& & Other Lies) be out?
Like the remainder of us, you’re most likely waiting breathless to view the program. But do not obtain as well excited right now— as it’s most likely we’ll have to wait till later on in 2022, and even 2023 till the series hits our displays (impatient, us?).
In the meanwhile, there’s lots of fantastic TV to catch up on— including period 3 of You, and a whole host of grasping shows to view on Amazon Prime.
In the months in advance, we’ll be hunching down to see the Sex And The City reboot, … And Just Like That (released in December of this year in the United States, with a UK release date to follow soon— we really hope!),